Radiative and hadronic heavy meson decays
of the heavy vector \(B^\ast \) -mesons have been evaluated
using the Heavy Quark Effective Theory and the Vector Meson Dominance
hypothesis [1]}. It was found that
\(\Gamma (B^{\ast \,+}\rightarrow B^+\gamma ) = 220(90)\)  eV and
\(\Gamma (B^{\ast \,0}\rightarrow B^0\gamma ) = 75(27)\)  eV.
